Flames of Orion: Dark Spirit

Violence Dimension.

Over the last few years, we had the opportunity to playtest Flames of Orion, Steve’s (sovthofheaven) mech combat game. The game’s rules were recently finalized, with copies getting sold at Adepticon this year, but also available to download for free! The game is soon going to be launched on Kickstarter too! Each time we played the game, we used one of Steve’s mechs (sculpted by Ana Polanšćak of Gardens of Hecate), Dark Spirit. Over time, they developed quite a legacy and are even featured in a narrative piece in the rulebook. With Under the Dice Fest rapidly approaching this year, we thought it would be fun to create our own version of Dark Spirit so we can use them during the event!

Dark Spirit makes it off the battlefield with the priceless alien relic during the last Under the Dice Fest.

Dark Spirit was minorly converted from a base model sculpted by Ana Polanšćak of Gardens of Hecate.

Not content to leave the original model unaltered, I replaced the barrels of the walker with a series of brass tubes.

In addition to the modified barrels, I also used some platicard to add additional detail to the top of the mech.

The walker was pinned on a resin base from Unreal Wargaming Studios, which was originally designed for use with Titanicus models.

- Adam Wier